45 Quotes by Powers Boothe

You don't do classics with a Texas accent.

I've auditioned five or six times. I'm not very good at it.

I come prepared when I come to work. Not just knowing the lines, but I think I know something about what I do.

One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song.

When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work.

We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.

I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual.

If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.